I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 10th 2025) in 03:29
This one was good actually
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Woah does it really also glaze over the pornography industry in a Nintendo game?
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Only in the Japan version and I think it’s gravure rather than AV now that I remember it but feels adjacent. In the western version the whole dungeon it relates to is a character overcoming her fears to do a promo shoot where she’s wearing a pretty tame outfit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y1RVMplNAc
I remember being very confused by it and looking it up later but the whole thing still felt weird to try and rationalise since it’s still pretty uninterested in deeper themes.
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playing ff4 on the miyoo mini while i dont have access to my pc and pine for robocop
i’ve played this shit way too many times all the way back to zsnes for dos but i swear every single time i go directly to the dark elf’s cave without talking to convalescing edward first and get rinsed
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Finished Steamworld Dig 2. Such a great game I could have gone with a little more of it honestly. Haven’t 100% so I may spend some more time with it.
I’ve moved on to Clair Obsura: Expedition 33 and it is matching my late summer ennui all too well. I fear I will need white clown makeup to wear my feelings.
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Heaven Vault about halfway through I think. A phenomenal work. Near unbelievable that it executes as well as it does. Despite how much the game tells you it always treats the game/world/characters as a single piece and does not patronize the player to keep up. I can’t imagine how long it took to work the logistics of that out.
In the game you are an archeologist in a world where no one really does that. It does not just replace ancient Rome with Ancient Rumu. This is a deeply different world and it has been a joy to uncover how different.
That’s what has been driving me. I almost refuse to learn False History at this point and have gotten by in the game refusing to learn history.
What is also carrying the game is one of the best dialog systems I’ve ever seen. Just from the start when you meet your mother figure and before you know anything about their relationship or history you can be warm or dismissive or an asshole to her. And that has carried forward in being able to Role Play and that extending to everyone I meet. It is as much a Social Game as a Archaeology Game.
Truly special.
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the plotting/pacing is incredible. character development and story reveals timed to occur like you’re watching a (good) TV show
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one of the most amazing things about the UI is that it will never spoil a setting detail for you. If you learn a name for a thing, that’s what the game will call that thing, even if it is the wrong name.
This makes the archaeology feel plausible. You might have an entire historical era figured wrong (I did on my first playthrough) and the game never lets you know that you missed something. It feels complete and coherent no matter how thorough or correct your deductions are.
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If the daily Set puzzle doesn’t come back soon I’m going to have to start writing my own!!!
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That’s gotta have six sets, right
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I’m trying to figure out what you could possible be referring to and I can’t (maybe because it is late.) but that’s great!
It’s gripped me until after midnight two days in a row. Feels like the game if I take a break everything will dissapear.
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I just started playing with my deck again
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Azure Dreams is cute, I have never played a Rogue-like like this and I guess there’s also monster taming and a dating game? I remember a childhood friend showing this game off and the thing he was impressed by was being able to jump on someone’s food and they had a special dialog response to it.
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It’s not just one thing but for example in my first play through (major spoiler) I never found out about the robot empire so the timeline in the game was way more nebulous during that era
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yeah I love this game, it’s like shiren + life sim with really goofy characters and the spirtes-on-warbly-polygons PS1 look that I love.
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Playing Banjo Kazooie, had like 98 out of 100 notes collected, all the Jinjos, and most of the puzzle pieces in the second level, fucked up dive-bombing when flying and died and now I have to do all that shit over again???
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THATS BANJO BABY.
(I don’t think you need all 900 notes to beat the game, just 800)
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i finally finished playing through final fantasy 7 remake ps4 with my roommate. that was crazy and really long it’s kind of astonishing. remaking the 1 average length ps1 rpg into a 10 year ongoing metafictional subseries. i am not convinced that people are always going to be making videogame projects quite like this. have you ever watched a silent film and noticed how these old hollywood films from like 1920 have scenes with literally hundreds of extras walking around massive lots and noticed how that kind of thing really doesn’t get made much anymore… that’s what “final fantasy 7 remake” feels a little like
also i feel like you’re not “supposed to say this” but it really looks and feels like an unreal 4 game in a way that i assume is going to strike people 20 or so years from now (by which time i hope there’s a final fantasy 7 remake remake) as dating it to the late 2010s / 2020s as severely as much as like… ps2 graphics look so blocky and polygonal in comparison to games now that they feel closer to ps1 games. despite it also feeling like a big difference in like storage medium capacity and the number of polygons between the two
of course i also think it’s great but i have to laugh a little. thinking about the part where you’re kind of on a date with aerith and need to pick her up with giant robot arms… whoever comes up with this stuff made a game for geniuses. when this game is in like romcom mode it’s kind of stupidly satisfying lol… lots of gay little moments between the characters. also i liked the combat a lot even if by the end i was a little exhausted of the like armored core 6 boss patterns. maybe i’ll play hard mode…
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hugely agree about the UE4 observation! and yes I think Remake is a really weird and interesting work in its own right and already feels very much of its time. probably don’t bother with rebirth FYI (they steadily lost control of most of the interesting parts of it, much like 15 → 16)
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There was a lot I really liked in Rebirth, especially the way they leaned hard into the goofier side of the original game, but it was too much cake. I’m overusing that phrase lately but this was the ultimate too much cake game, even more than Elden Ring. The open world stuff was very charming at first but stayed too samey and became just an irritating checklist for each new area. I got to the desert area and totally dropped it, probably never to return.
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Hard mode is at least worth messing with to see “the real game” that was buried in there. I tried to pick up a hard mode save like 4 months later and had forgotten how to play the game and got destroyed at the boss to the second reactor.
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